Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says that we all need to be worried that Al Quaeda is about to attack and kill us. Why? Does he have any evidence that such an attack is on the way?
No, the White House says that there is no evidence to indicate any specific credible terrorist threat against the United States of America.
That doesn’t matter to Secretary Chertoff. He says that he did a “gut feeling” to see what terrorists might be up to, and has concluded that “summertime seems to be appealing to them.” He might as well have checked with an 8-ball or tarot cards to predict a terrorist attack.
America needs to end the regime of Homeland Insecurity that squawks about coming dangers on the basis of nothing more than the way that someone’s guts feel. We need a President who understands that national security ought to be investigated with experts’ brains, not our other internal organs.
(Sources: Reuters, July 11, 2007; Chicago Tribune, July 11, 2007)
It’s use quotes around “gut check” since the actual quote from the cited sources is “gut feeling.”
Keep trying, you’re getting better.
video here:
http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/07/expert_chertoff_gut_feeling_co.html
but it doesn’t say “gut” in the clip shown, it just refers to an absence of televised threats that Chertoff bases his warning on. His talk about risking lives lost seems to be warning people off of summer travel, which would not sit well with the Chicago Tribune, as Chicago is corporate headquarters to both Boeing and United.
S.T.T., the “gut check” quote is based upon an earlier article which used that term. The article has been revised to use the term “gut feeling”. You’ll see, if you look around, that plenty of people cited that earlier version of the article, which used the term “gut check”.
I’m making a change to reflect the revision made by the journalists.
Now, S.T.T., do you have any thoughts about the SUBSTANCE? A “gut check” is not different in substance from a “gut feeling”. Do you think that the Secretary of Homeland Security ought to be making pronouncements of dangers to public safety based on no evidence other than how his gut feels? What is this – the Department of Psychic Security?
In this case, you actually showed some journalistic integrity.
Sounds to me like ol’ Mikey might be tryin’ ta set us all up for the next home-made in-house disaster made to look like an “attack” on America. The media will buy whatever official “spin” is put on it and we’ll all be scratchin’ our heads when it doesn’t add up, but then we’ll all just go shopping and watch Nascar and all will be well again in la-la land. Anybody ever get any “real” answers to the (JF)Kennedy assassination besides the official single bullet theory? i don’t put anything past the CIA and NSA goons, but i’m just a conspiracy theorist, so don’t mind me.